Sean Michaels and Anna Smaill at Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Born in Stirling, Montreal’s Sean Michaels won the Giller Prize (Canada’s Man Booker) for Us Conductors, a novel about electricity that tells the true story of Russian inventor and spy, Lev Termen. New Zealand’s Anna Smaill has penned The Chimes, set in a future London where music has replaced written words and memory is forbidden. Two debut novelists to keep an eye on. Recorded at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 22 August 2015.